Focus on Flowers

Ryan Teitman is finishing his MFA in creative writing at Indiana University and will be a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University this fall. New poems by him are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Sycamore Review, and Washington Square.

Improvisations with the Spanish ensemble More Hispano (Carpe Diem) and Portuguese polyphony with Imagem da Melancolia (Challenge Classics).

This special installment of Profiles revisits the life of the late Indiana University President and Chancellor Herman B Wells.

Haines Eason recorded for The Poets Weave while in Bloomington, Indiana to attend and read his poetry as part of the Annual International Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference 2010 hosted by the Indiana University Department of English's Graduate Students.

These flowers appeal to all of the senses, according to Collette who wrote “I can hear the iris bloom... We too can listen to the iris. And if we are very still and attentive to our flowers, one day like Collette, we may even hear one open.

Sheryl WuDunn is a journalist, lecturer, businesswoman, and co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

Christopher Citro reads the poems "Pico" and "Sophia" from Ed Tato’s True Stories from la Cosa Nostra, a series of poems about the Del Gabbos, a fictional Italian immigrant family living in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Ensemble Caprice tackles Telemann's Gypsy music, Esterházy Machine plays Haydn's baryton trios, and Paul O’Dette champions Marco dall’Aquila’s lute pieces.

Many of us who love to grow tulips in our gardens have visiting deer who love to eat them. It seems to be such a violent death for a bud or flower. The poet E. J.Scovell must not have had deer in her garden because she describes a more gradual demise.

Kelly Wilson is a graduate student in Creative Writing and English Literature at Indiana University, where she also serves as Assistant Director for the Indiana University Writers Conference. She reads selections from her current project, Earthly Fathers.

Bach's Matthew Passion and two modern works inspired by it.

Sometimes we can prolong the life of a cut flower like a tulip by cutting the stem shorter and placing the flower in deep water in a tall narrow vase, which provides support and keeps the bloom upright.

Marcus Wicker is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan and holds fellowships from Indiana University’s MFA Program and Cave Canem. Marcus currently serves as Poetry Editor of the Indiana Review. On this extended web edition of The Poets Weave, he reads his poems "Some Revisions," "Love Letter to Flavor Flav," and "Love Letter to RuPaul."

The botanical name is Allium tuberosum, and it produces small globes of starry white flowers in mid-summer and blooms for about a month. The flowers are as attractive to bees as they are to gardeners.

Brian Dickie answers questions about the company's history with early opera and their current production of Cavalli's "Giasone."

Renowned soprano and Indiana University alum Angela Brown is noted for her vocal power, high pianissimos, and larger-than-life personality.

The string quartet has three hundred year’s history. A brass quintet has maybe forty year’s history. If you think about it, we have created an opportunity with Canadian Brass. We’ve made it a legitimate ensemble. We’ve brought it to all the major concert stages. Now, the development can start. Now the music starts filling in.

Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation program that encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization and performance. Christopher Citro reads a selection of poems from The Poetry Out Loud Anthology on this edition of The Poets Weave.

There are about 300 species of Corydalis, both perennial and biennial, belonging to the poppy family. Give these plants full sun to partial shade where summers are not too hot and well-drained soil with regular moisture.

Music for harpsichord and organ by one of the German baroque's most prominent composers before J.S. Bach.

Kinzee Ellis is pursuing her MFA at Indiana University. Her awards include the Neal-Marshall Fellowship from Indiana University, a Select Scholarship offer from the Summer Literary Seminars Fiction and Poetry Contest, and the Academy for American Poets Prize Award for Loyola University.

Since the poem I read mentions “gilly flowers of gold” it is likely that the poet John Drinkwater was referring to the European wallflower that has spikes of yellow blooms with brown markings. Wallflowers are still frequently seen in English gardens even today, though they are rarely grown in America.

Christopher Citro reads the poem "Ugo" from Ed Tato’s True Stories from la Cosa Nostra, a series of poems about the Del Gabbos, a fictional Italian immigrant family living in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Duo Amade performs Mozart's sonatas for violin and keyboard (Chandos), and the L'Orfeo Wind Ensemble plays Myslivecek's complete quintets and octets (CPO).

Early clarinetist Eric Hoeprich answers questions about his instrument, ensemble (Nachtmusique), and other projects.